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color=#0000ff size=2>Add autoneg off to ethtool, and make sure you are using the
right quotes (if you copy/pasted, you are using ' not ")</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=3>eth0_ethtool="autoneg off speed 100 duplex
full"</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>Also, the version of kickstart you are using simply may not
support the ethtool statement. I believe ESX is based on an older version
of RHEL.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@redhat.com] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Gabrie<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, September 03, 2007 12:13 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
Discussion list about Kickstart<BR><B>Subject:</B> Boot parameters not
working<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Hi</DIV>
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<DIV>For auto-install of ESX hosts, I use kickstart (through the Ultimate
Deployment Appliance UDA). This UDA generates my kickstart file and boot
parameters. </DIV>
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<DIV>I've noticed that when using the nic at 1000Mb - Full Duplex, the kickstart
scripts stops after "doing kickstart... setting it up". When at cisco switch
level I change the port speed to 100Mb - Full Duplex, the script runs fine.
Unfortunately, after the install is finished, I realy need that 1000Mb, so I
would be nice if I could configure the nic at 100 during install. </DIV>
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<DIV>I tried adding " eth0_ethtool='speed 100 duplex full' " to the
boot parameters line, but this doesn't seem to have any effect.</DIV>
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<DIV>My bootline looks like:</DIV>
<DIV>append ip=dhcp ksdevice=eth0 eth0_ethtool='speed 100 duplex full'
load_ramdisk=1 initrd=initrd.esx301 network ks=<A
href="http://172.29.26.249/kickstart/es020.cfg">http://172.29.26.249/kickstart/es020.cfg</A>
ESXIP=20</DIV>
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<DIV>Any tips?</DIV>
<DIV>Gabrie</DIV></BODY></HTML>